Does altivec work on biarch compiler for gcc 3.3.3-hammer?

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Apr 26 11:54:19 EST 2004


On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 11:45, davis wrote:
> Hello
>
> Does altivec work with gcc 3.3.3 hammer?
>
> I'm building  with -maltivec and -mabi=altivec but it does not seem to work
> for simple programs.  For instance,
>
> 	printf("%vc",(vector unsigned char) {'h','e','l','l','o'});

It works, though I've been told 3.4 is more reliable at generating
vector code.

> Will print:
>
>  	%vc

Which is a glibc issue, not gcc.

Ben.


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